This blog will post detailed news items about GLBT issues. Some of the issues include the "don't ask don't tell" policy for gays in the military, and gay marriage. Please note that my main website is DOASKDOTELL.COM (link on my Profile).

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Since the 1990s I have been very involved with fighting the military "don't ask don't tell" policy for gays in the military, and with First Amendment issues. Best contact is 571-334-6107 (legitimate calls; messages can be left; if not picked up retry; I don't answer when driving) Three other url's: doaskdotell.com, billboushka.com johnwboushka.com Links to my URLs are provided for legitimate content and user navigation purposes only.
My legal name is "John William Boushka" or "John W. Boushka"; my parents gave me the nickname of "Bill" based on my middle name, and this is how I am generally greeted. This is also the name for my book authorship. On the Web, you can find me as both "Bill Boushka" and "John W. Boushka"; this has been the case since the late 1990s. Sometimes I can be located as "John Boushka" without the "W." That's the identity my parents dealt me in 1943!

Thursday, May 01, 2014

This evening, I attended a booksigning party at the Human
Rights Campaign at Rhode Island Ave. and 17th St. NW in Washington
DC, for author Katie Fagan, for her new book “The Reappearing Act: Coming out
as Gay on a College Basketball Team Led by Born-Again Christians”, published by
Skyhorse. Kate is a columnist for ESPN.

The audience was mostly women, and the conversation tended
to focus on the intricate internal politics of college sports. The author said
that there only about 80 job openings a year in college basketball and
relatively few go to women. She also indicated that at southern schools
(especially in Texas) open lesbians who worked on university coaching staffs
had been fired and had no legal protection.

I brought up the question of big league sports. That’s especially timely on the race issue
this week in the NBA because of the Donald Sterling situation. On sexual orientation, all major league
sports franchises have been developing clauses to end discrimination based on
sexual orientation (for links, see the posting here Feb. 25). The audience indicated that the NFL might be
easier to accept gay players than MLB because all NFL players have gone to
college. Baseball, by comparison,
requires less physical contact in the sport itself and is more focused on
individual performance (especially in pitching and batting). But it is true that many player come from
conservative cultures (like in the Caribbean) and have less education. It was mentioned that Bryce Harper went to
the Nationals with just a GED. But some
players do have degrees and are articulate and well educated and came through college baseball (Stephen
Strasburg, Ryan Zimmerman and Tim Lincecum).
Like the military, professional teams have to develop cohesion, in an
environment where players are often traded and can become free agents. MLB teams seem more open to “gay nights” at
stadiums than the NFL so far, but they have much longer schedules.

I bought a copy of the book, and gave here a business card for my DADT book. It was a little pricey in hardcover ($25). I will read it and review it soon. She mentioned during the reading that finding a publisher interested in women's sports was difficult, but she didn't mention self-publishing.

Another NBA owner, Richard DeVos, attracted attention for mildly anti-gay remarks (especially about asking for "favors" with gay marriage). CNN has called attention to his behavior in relation to the Sterling case (story). .

Today I wrote a post on my International Issues blog about
the “Dear Russia: It’s Not Okay” campaign on YouTube, with display of a video
by Timo Descamps, and some more horrific news from Uganda.

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